Don’t look now, but I’m pretty sure this makes three weeks in a row of doing at least 1 reader question per week. Today, I’m going to tackle a question I received: is programming art? Here is the actual text of the question. It’s a well-written consideration that cites two parallels: painting and writing. This…
In this episode, I took the newly minted threat evaluator and used it to prevent castling through check. The most interesting thing to note in this episode, however, aside from continued progress toward the final product, was how some earlier sub-optimal architectural shortcuts came back to bite us (if only temporarily). At this point, we’re…
True to my promise from last week, I am making a more concerted effort to bun down the queue of reader questions on my blog topics Trello board. Thus, today brings you another answer to a reader question (one of these days, I may get around to doing video answers). I am actually obfuscating this…
Once again, it’s been a while since the last episode in the series. This time the culprit has been a relocation for the remainder of the winter, which meant I was dealing with moving-like logistics. However I’m holed up now in the south, where I’ll spend the winter working on my book, working remotely, and…
I had a reader question come in that was a bit sensitive and specific, so I won’t post it here. It pertained to receiving a job offer that had some peculiarities around the “paid time off” (PTO) situation. Given the time-sensitive nature of such a thing, rather than add it to my Trello backlog of…
